Who's "we"?
Posted on 11/17/2014 11:28:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
MORONS every one.
“’Fair’ is a place you go to ride ponies and eat cotton candy”
-my dad
I hear the word “fair”, I hide my wallet.
I’m a volunteer EMT in a wealthy town, and many of my patients are from a very expensive assisted living complex.
Many of them have high school degrees only, and still managed to be very financially successful.
Credentialism and outsourcing. If the job still exists in this country, it’s not enough to be smart and willing to learn on the job - you’re supposed to jump through some costly hoops to prove you’re smart, and the companies still don’t want to train you - they’d rather say they can’t find you and prove they need Ramesh from Mumbai.
ROTFL I've been quoting that for years (the one I remember ended with "What you mean 'we', paleface?"). Thanks for linking to the cartoon!
If they hadn’t voted Obama into office twice, I might be able to muster some sympathy for them. They inflicted their ignorance on us all.
I agree TOTALLY with the last statement, that today’s young people are really addicted to games, TV shows, facebook, entertaining themselves to death, etc. They do not pay attention to what is going on or who is doing it. Not to mention that THIS particular group is the feelly-touchy group that falls for the social media lies, attend the same kind of church, if they go at all, and blame those trying to rectify the damage instead of the perpetrators! I do feel bad for them, and my own kids are in that group financially to some extent, even though older, because the job market has been terrible since the 90s for some careers. The problem is that they’ll likely rebel, putting the Marxists right back in because they don’t know the difference.
Liberals LOVE to remind everybody about the one good thing that they give President Eisenhower credit for, his farewell address that included the criticism of the developing “Military-Industrial Complex” and its bad possible outcome(s).
Today we need to have another such speech, although I have no thought that it would come from our next departing President, but this time on the ill effects of the “Government-Education Complex!” Consider that with the Department of Education, children are in the eye of government apparatchiks from pre-K through College. Add to this the fact that the Obama Administration has taken over the Student Loan operations and makes specific tax treatments for individuals going to school, education institutions, labor unions and others. In short, the intrusion of the FEDERAL Government is one of the most massive shifts ever given that there is no mention of Education in the powers given to the government by that dread document, the US Constitution.
More fodder for my theory that an Economic Populist Demagogue is going to walk away with the next election.
It was liberals who sold the lie that you can’t get ahead in America without a college education. It was liberals who destroyed the education system to the point that students need to go to college just to get a high school education. It was liberals who made it ridiculously easy to rack up astronomical student loans, and impossible to discharge them in bankruptcy, creating a generation of debt slaves. It was liberals who run the universities and benefited from unlimited money pumped into them. But they keep voting for liberals.
Not always. There are many small towns and some big cities where people move away and never come back. The security is not that the house will necessarily be worth more than you paid for it, but hopefully by the time you retire it will be paid off, freeing you from mortgage/rent payment in retirement.
That’s obvious eveywhere but FR, although I do appreciate some sanity here every now and again. Not that it will do any good.
Many of my co-workers are in this age group ... thinking, thinking, thinking ... out of about 10 that I know personally, not everyone in the plant, only one 30-something owns a home.
Partly because his wife has a really good job that makes up for our McJobs at the appliance factory.
Since the recession, some of the factories that paid over $20 per hour relocated ... when they came back or re-opened they offered people $12 per hour instead.
It doesn’t seem right to bust your hump all day on an assembly line and still have to depend on food stamps.
(I’m not in that age group — we own our home and it’s almost paid for. But I’m a little worried for my kids.)
If it makes you feel any better I learned early. My parents were Democrats and they loved Obama and meth. We had social workers in the house all the time and my father ended up dying in prison and my mom struggles to stay clean. I never wanted to be like that and I needed something more in my life. Around the same time I found Free Republic I found my husband and his family and not long after that I started to find Christ.
I can tell you from my group of friends that I’m not the only person in my 20’s who has rejected the empty promises of leftism and who want to see an America that more closely resembles the ‘city on a hill’ that our Founders wanted it to be.
If anything, I think my generation will end up being more conservative than even the Reagan generation.
God bless you and thank you for everything you do!
- Megan
Can’t believe I’ve never heard that one before. Excellent.
Thank you very much, Megan. God bless.
I’m mad because I read Atlas Shrugged and I’m seeing it happening now, only there’s no Atlantis to disappear to.
Soooo, what’s your point? Millennials in the top 0.1 percent? Who the hell cares! Debt? So what! They need to stop the damn crying, buckle down, and make smarter moves. ADAPT you fools!!
Globalism is a race to the bottom of the WORLD and that is as low as human life can go. The more success globalists have, the more suffering and poverty Americans will have.
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